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- This article is an overview of the history of art worldwide. For the academic discipline of art history, see Art history.
The history of art usually refers to the history of the visual arts, such as painting, sculpture and architecture. The term also encompasses theory of the visual arts. It is not usually taken or intended to refer to the performing arts or literary arts. The history of art attempts an objective survey of art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods and noting their distinguishing features and influences.
The field of "art history" was developed in the West, and originally dealt exclusively with Western art history, with the High Renaissance (and its Greek precedent) as the defining standard. Gradually, with the onset of Modernism, a wider vision of history has developed, seeking to place other societies in a global overview by analysing their artifacts in terms of their own cultural values. Thus, the subject is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China.
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why is it that sometimes when I read from art historians, it feels like i'm reading an entirely different language...
thebluesnail (Laura Stoodley) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:21:58 -0000
why is it that sometimes when I read from art historians, it feels like i'm reading an entirely different language...
Home for Thankgiving 1945: Art historians spend time debating whether Norman Rockwell was an artist or simply a.. http://bit.ly/7tEYfv
dartblog (Dartblog.com) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:24:25 -0000
Home for Thankgiving 1945: Art historians spend time debating whether Norman Rockwell was an artist or simply a.. http://bit.ly/7tEYfv
@amandafrench another potential word used by art historians for images that include text: iconotext
melissaterras (melissa terras) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:06:48 -0000
@amandafrench another potential word used by art historians for images that include text: iconotext
Today! Symposium 9am-1pm Living Archives (living-archives.com) artists, art historians and students SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St Free
sfaievents (SFAI Communications) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:22:53 -0000
Today! Symposium 9am-1pm Living Archives (living-archives.com) artists, art historians and students SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St Free
>> while the arts (or art historians and literary critics, at least) spend a similar amount of time trying to *obfuscate* their discoveries.
8c (Jaren Lewis) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:01:43 -0000
>> while the arts (or art historians and literary critics, at least) spend a similar amount of time trying to *obfuscate* their discoveries.
Art historians will look back at today as a shining moment in art and science.
ohnozen (Oscar Natividad) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:43:58 -0000
Art historians will look back at today as a shining moment in art and science.
Artology - Articles, publications and biography of English art critic and historian John A. Walker.
Meta Description: [ Portfolio & biography of esteemed art critic/historian John A. Walker. His critical work includes British Art(1970's), Postmodernism and Left-Wing Art ]
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Bowles, Gerald - Art history professor provides his syllabi, suggested reading list and other teaching tools and information.
Lawner, Lynne - Articles, biography, publications and lectures by an Italian poet and art historian.
Meta Description: [ Lynne Lawner is a poet, art historian and lecturer who has published six books. ]
Le Goff, Raichel - Features articles, lectures, and seminars.
Meta Description: [ Art History: collection of articles written by Raichel le Goff Trinity College, Oxford and Courtauld graduate ]
Margolin, Victor - Professor of design history at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Includes journal articles, book reviews, poems, personal essays, curriculum vitae, and images from the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Pateman, Trevor - Collection of academic works in art history, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, political theory.
Meta Description: [ Trevor Pateman's academic work ]
Rock, Joe - Research papers on aspects of Scottish cultural history.
Weisberg, Gabriel P. - Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg's work focuses on themes affecting French art from the middle of the nineteenth century until World War I.
Meta Description: [ Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg's work focuses on themes affecting French
art from the middle of the nineteenth century until World War I. ]
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